Actors Quote by George Jean Nathan Download Open image “A ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts.” — George Jean Nathan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Actors Ham Instinct Natural Natural instinct Successful
If there is a streak of ham anywhere in an actor, Shakespeare will bring it out. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
“Apparently it was cheap pig lard that had inspired the term ham, meaning a poor-quality performer.” — Juliette Fay Copy Share Image
Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one. — Lucille Ball Copy Share Image
If a hamster has too many babies she knows she cannot carry, she not only abandons them, but she eats them. That means she… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
What passes for woman's intuition is more often intrinsically nothing more than man's transparency. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . .… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was supposed to do. I didn't want to exploit it or be too "actory" about it, if that makes any sense. That's also why I didn't shave my head; I feel like you have to earn that.… — Monica Potter Copy Share
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's… — Kangana Ranaut Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
The whole concept of stage fright is fascinating. Actors get stage fright, but they wouldn't be on the stage in the first place if… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are. — Will Smith Copy Share Image
American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us? — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I had a very blessed journey with the upbringing I had. When you're working on sets as a stuntman, you have a firsthand account… — Ric Roman Waugh Copy Share Image